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suggest, mediated by the respondent’s socioeconomic status, length of
time in the United States, and increased interaction with black
Americans.
10
The dependent variable–stereotypic views of blacks–is an
index of three stereotype questions ranging in value from 3 (holding the
most stereotypic views of blacks) to 15 (holding the least stereotypic
views of blacks).
11
We include a number of predictors: educational
attainment was used as our measure of socioeconomic status (measured
as number of years of schooling ranging from 0 to 25 years) ; blacks in
their neighborhood
13
; social contact with blacks
14
;
(ranges from 0 to 35 years), and gender (1=male; 0=female). We also
include the indicator of linked fate (
10
Of the 170 Latinos in our sample, 156 reported that they were born
outside of the United States. Thus,
“
Latino immigrants
”
refers to these 156
individuals and the analyses for this hypothesis are performed using only these
156 individuals.
11
Question wording: Q1) For blacks, do you think work hard describes: almost all blacks, most
blacks, some blacks, few blacks, almost no blacks; Q2) For blacks, do think “it is easy to get along with
them” describes: (same response categories as question 1); Q3) For blacks, do think “you can trust them”
describes: (same response categories as question 1).
12
Income had initially been included in our model but was dropped due to
suspected collinearity with education.
13
Question wording: In your neighborhood, how many of the residents are black? 1) none of the
residents; 2) a few of the residents; 3) some of the residents; 4) most of the residents; 5) all of the residents.
14
Question wording: In your social life, including your friends and people you know from church
and other social activities, do you have 4) a lot of contact, 3) some contact, 2) little contact, or 1) no
contact at all, with blacks?
15
We converted this measure to years in the United States
by
subtracting
the year arrived from 2003 (the year the survey was conducted)
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